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Sustainability within Health
Good Practice Guideline on the Implementation of Smallholder and Emerging Farmer Support Initiatives A presentation delivered by Ms Martjie Cloete (Western Cape Government Health: Climate and Utilities Champion) on 03...
The Implementation of Effective Blended Finance Support Programmes for SMMEs: Lessons from the Jobs Fund
A presentation delivered by Mr Nazeem Hendricks, Ms Evelyn Leopold George and Mr Ben Kasimukire (From the Jobs Fund Unit) on 17 February 2023 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar...
Showcasing the Infrastructure Fund (IF)
A presentation delivered by Ms Tshiphiri Muedi (from the IF) on 10 February 2023 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. This presentation gives an overview of the IF which...
Good Practice Guideline on the Implementation of Smallholder and Emerging Farmer Support Initiatives
A presentation delivered by Mr Danie Swart, Mr Nkgasha Tema and Mr Sonkho Phiri (From the Jobs Fund Unit ) on 20 January 2023 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar...
Infrastructure Implementation Challenges & What can be done to resolve them
Increased investment in the economy is a critical part of achieving sustainable and inclusive growth. By expanding and accelerating infrastructure investments as dictated by the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan...
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: Mainstreaming Citizen Engagement in Public Financial Management for Better Results
The World Bank Group’s twin goals, ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, encourage the strengthening of an inclusive society, based on a citizen-state social contract that promotes government accountability....
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: INTOSAI_Engagement with Civil Society_20210628_10h00
This framework is intended for SAIs that have taken, or are considering taking, a strategic decision to strengthen their engagement and cooperation with civil society with the aim of improving...
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: A guide to conducting social audits in South Africa_July 2016
The Guide is a living document that has been in development for over a year and will continue to mature as the social audit methodology is implemented and refined in...
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: Auditor General South Africa: the future of local government
Auditor-general (AG) Tsakani Maluleke called on all role players in the local government accountability ecosystem to diligently play their part to ensure accountability for government spending, and for improving service...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: 1998 White Paper on Local Government
The White Paper on Local Government is unique, as it does not deal with a sectoral policy, but with an entire sphere of government. It can almost be regarded as...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: Local Govt Turnaround Strategy 2009
This Local Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS) is aimed at counteracting forces that are undermining our Local Government system. Root causes for some of these problems include systemic factors, i.e. linked...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: Draft National Water Services Improvement Prog 2022
The Minister responsible water and sanitation presented the National Water Services Improvement Programme to Cabinet. The focus of the programme will be on actions that can be undertaken and have...
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The cluster includes the following government departments: Communications, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Economic Development, Energy, Finance, Human Settlements, Public Enterprises, Public Works, The Presidency: National Planning Commission, Transport and Water and Environmental Affairs.
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Task Team on Private Sector Financing of Infrastructure
There is a specific focus on assisting with private sector financing of infrastructure. CPAU chaired a Task Team on private sector financing of infrastructure to understand what constraints there might...
Infrastructure User Charges
This guideline produced by GTAC’s Capital Projects Appraisal Unit sets out broad principles and economic considerations that can assist in determining how investments in infrastructure can be paid for in...
Appraisal of Infrastructure Guideline Appraisal Tools and Methodologies
The current socio-economic climate in South Africa is characterised by the need for greater investment in infrastructure to support higher levels of economic growth and social welfare. However, the challenge...
Transforming South Africa’s Divided Cities: Can Devolution Help?
Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, drafted this journal article that looks at South Africa’s divided cities. Little progress has been made since 1994 to alter...
Turning the tide: The Johannesburg Development Agency and its role in revitalising the inner city
From a mining village in 1886, Johannesburg expanded rapidly to become South Africa’s undisputed industrial and commercial capital. In the 1960s and 1970s the central business district was almost completely...
Why the lights went out: Reform in the South African energy sector
In 2008 South Africa’s lights went out. Problems started in 2005 when damage to Koeberg resulted in power cuts in the Western Cape. This situation continued to deteriorate and in...
Why the Lights Went Out: Reform in the South African Energy Sector
A case study looking at reform in the South African energy sector.
Case Study for Ten Years of the Mbombela (Nelspruit) Water and Sanitation Concession South Africa
local government provides all citizens with basic water and sanitation services. In 1999 the Nelspruit Transitional Local Council signed a 30-year concession agreement with the Greater Nelspruit Utility Company to...
“The water that kills our babies”: A Case of Water Services Crisis in The Ukhahlamba District Municipality
“These babies are dying because of the dirty water they drink.” That’s how Siyanda Manana, director of communications at the Eastern Cape health department in Bhisho described the deaths of...
Constructing Future Growth Opportunities – The Potential to Develop an Intensive Civil Engineering and Construction Works Export Strategy
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there is merit in changing the SA policy approach to the local civil engineering and construction works sector. To date, the...
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Communications, Economic Development, Finance, Higher Education and Training, Labour, Mineral Resources, Public Enterprises, Rural Development and Land Reform, Science and Technology, Tourism and Trade and Industry.
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GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Municipal Case Study – Matzikama Local Municipality, Western Cape
GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This study is part of the CBPEP/GTAC Project: Employment Intensive Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities...
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Commodity Study – Livestock Production
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This paper is a thematic study for livestock production by smallholders and small-scale black commercial farmers in South Africa. Its...
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Commodity Study – Wool Production by Small-Scale Farmers
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. The overall aims of this study are to identify the potential for successful expansion of the number of small-scale farmers...
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Commodity Study – Fresh Produce Production Under Irrigation by Small-Scale Farmers in South Africa
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This report documents the status of fresh produce production (vegetables and green maize) under irrigation by small-scale farmers in South...
GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Commodity Study – Subtropical Fruit Production by Small-Scale Farmers in South Africa and Employment Intensive Land Reform
GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This commodity study on subtropical fruit and nuts forms part of the ‘CBPEP/GTAC project for employment-intensive rural land reform...
GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities Thematic Study The Strengths and Weaknesses of Systems of Land Tenure and Land Administration in South Africa and The Implications for Employment Intensive Land Reform
The overall aims of this thematic study are to identify the strengths and weaknesses of existing systems of land tenure and land administration in South Africa, and to explore the...
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Thematic Study – Agricultural Value Chains in South Africa and The Implications for Employment-Intensive Land Reform
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This paper is part of a larger research initiative intended to formulate policy options for land reform in South Africa...
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Thematic Study – International Experiences of Support Policies for Smallholders: A Review and an Exploration of Underlying Rationale and Narratives
This thematic study on International experiences of policies supporting smallholder production is part of the background papers of the ‘GTAC/CBPEP/EU study on employment-intensive rural land reform in South Africa.’ It...
GTAC/CBPEP/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Thematic Study – Climate Change and Its Impacts on The Feasibility and Sustainability of Small-Scale Systems of Agricultural Production, in Communal Areas and on Farms Transferred Through Land Reform
This paper is intended to provide context and support discussion on the potential impacts of climate on small-scale farming systems in South Africa and the resulting socio-economic impacts, including in...
CBPEP/GTAC/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Thematic Study – The Social and Cultural Aspects of Small-Scale Agricultural Production in South Africa and The Implications for Employment-Intensive Land Reform
CBPEP/GTAC/EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This study aims to identify the key social and cultural aspects of small-scale agricultural production in rural South Africa and...
GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities. Thematic Study – A Review of Support Services for smallholder and small-scale agricultural producers
GTAC/CBPEP/ EU Project on Employment-Intensive Rural Land Reform in South Africa. This thematic paper forms part of a series which explore specific commodities, crosscutting themes and related municipal case studies....
CBPEP Colloquium 2020 – Conference Report (10 – 11 March 2020)
This report shares the diverse perspectives that were aired at the CBPEP colloquium 2020.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Home Affairs, Justice and Constitutional Development, Finance, Public Service and Administration and The Presidency: Performance Monitoring and Evaluation and Administration.
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Second Edition, Covid-19 Country Report: Chapter 3: Legal and Regulatory Responses
This chapter outlinea the legal and regulatory frameworks that have underpinned the Covid-19 response and ensuing effects including crucial social systems – including the health system, health research, elections and...
South Africa Covid-19 Country Report: First Edition June 2021
This official government report covers the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. It records measures and interventions adopted by the South African government in partnership with its social partners to...
The function shift of Early Childhood Development from the Department of Social Development to the Department of Basic Education
A presentation delivered by Dr. Bangani Ngeleza (MSc., MBL., DBL) on 03 June 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. Early Childhood Development lays the foundation and is core...
Management and Utilisation of Accommodation and ICT in SAPS – Is There Scope for Greater Efficiency?
The Police and IPID Directorate in the Public Finance Division of the National Treasury conducted spending reviews between June and October 2021, specifically focusing on: a) Space utilisation in 3...
Small Yet Significant: Costing ICT Services in the Police Services Group: CSPS, IPID AND PSIRA
This report provides an ICT spending review conducted on selected institutions within the Police Services Technical group. These institutions include: Civilian Secretariat for the Police Service (CSPS); Independent Police Investigative...
Costing ICT Services in the Police Services Group: SAPS, IPID and CSPS
A presentation delivered by Velisubuhle Buti (Senior Budget Analyst in the Justice and Protection Services Chief Directorate under the Public Finance division of the National Treasury) on 27 May 2022...
Public Entities review and rationalisation for the North-West Provincial Treasury (NWPT)
A presentation delivered by Dhiresh Ramklass (GTAC) on 13 May 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. The webinar showcased a Public Entities review and rationalisation for the North-West...
Diagnostic Review of the Capacity Building System for Local Government
A presentation delivered by Dr Li Pernegger (GTAC) and Dr Tracy Ledger Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) on 22 April 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. NT: IGR...
Institutional arrangements & capacity in The Presidency re District Development Model (DDM) model
A presentation delivered by Dr Li Pernegger on 25 March 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. The presentation showcases GTAC’s study undertaken in early 2021, to advise the...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter provides an overview summary of the first edition of South Africa’s Covid-19 Country Report. It includes the background to the report, the rationale for undertaking the initiative, the...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 4: Government Mobilization and Communication
This chapter investigates the capacity and effectiveness of government’s communications strategy as the country went through the various stages of lockdown under the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 4: Government Mobilization and Communication Presentation
This chapter investigates the capacity and effectiveness of government communications strategy as the country went through the various stages of lockdown under the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Environmental and Water Affairs, Human Settlements, Labour, Public Works, Rural Development and Land Affairs, Social Development, Transport and Women, Youth, Children and People with Disability.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Arts and Culture, Basic Education, Health, Higher Education and Training, Labour, Science and Technology and Sport and Recreation.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Defence and Military Veterans, International Relations and Cooperation, Finance, State Security, Tourism, Trade and Industry and Water and Environmental Affairs.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Correctional Services, Defence, Home Affairs, Justice and Constitutional Development, Police and State Security.